March will be finishing up here soon and April is headed on in. We have also had some beautiful sun breaks but a whole lot of that liquid sunshine has been coming our way. That along with a thunderstorm or two and all the plants are looking vividly green and the leaves on the trees are coming on out. Many of the trees and plants are blooming, Spring is here for sure!

Check out all the blossoms on those cherry plum trees!!!

In the hoop house...

Not too much change in the hoop house through the month. We had some good planting weather in February with plenty of sunshine. Since then its been wet, very wet with not much sun and most of our seedlings and plants are fairy stagnant for now. The cool weather crops don't seem to mind too much and there are still plenty of bugs after our tiny plants.

The radishes are coming along here and there. We seem to have some bugs enjoying them before we get to them. The joy of gardening ;)

Our musclin salad mix is coming up here and there. Enough so that we are using some in our salad mix. Looks like its time to interplant a bit more seed for those bare spots. Also time to bring the salt out for those lovely Oregon slugs!

Baby kale, a favorite in our parts and it seems hard to keep enough of it around. These little spouts are near ready to harvest which means its time to get our third section of kale going!

Overwintered cabbage seems be doing more sprouting up than out. But it sure is beautiful! Those green sprouts in-between which look like two blades of grass are baby onions which should help keep bugs off of our cabbage.

Whats growing outside...

Our currant bush is blooming for the first time! We had a bush many many years ago and moved right when it finally was producing enough berries to do something with. Sadly we never took it with us so we are excited to have this new bush blooming.

No its not grass ;) Our chives have made a come back after being without water through our hot summer and having the chickens scratching around them. A nice little plant to have outside our door for fresh garnish.

Spearmint, no killing this stuff. No one would know this was two little small plants from the store only a couple of years ago. Time to dehydrate and add to our Bloom'n Hibiscus Tea!!

The farm animals ...

Hi Rosco... yes you can have some yummy grain but after the chickens get theirs!

Feeding frenzy... what happens when their feeder doesn't get filled!

The Fermentation Station ...

This week we start a new adventure in our kombucha brewing. Sadly our homemade starter from GT's Kombucha turned into a vinegar scoby and we have been drinking vinegar for a few weeks :( Thankfully we received a Tibetan Scoby that is working out wonderfully. Much better tasting! We are second fermenting the tea here with some Pinot Noir grapes from Thistle Hill Vineyards.

Our new baby socby and the mother that was shared with us a couple weeks ago. Looking good and health waiting for their new batch of tea!

Time for continuous brew kombucha tea!

Despite our vinegar kombucha its still mighty fizzy and active. This one sort of surprised us with a lot of fizz! Flavored with elderberries, rose hips and ginger.

In the farm kitchen...

My first attempt at a lemon merging pie. It turned out tasty but needs some work on getting the layers to stay together. One way of many to use all those farm eggs!

Naturally fermented sourdough hot cross buns (old school variety without the fruit and sweet stuff) for Good Friday.

Eggs, Eggs, Eggs, and more Eggs! Go chickens go! We had quite the amount of meals with eggs in them last week I might say. Its time to get our little egg stand down at the end of the farm driveway.

Dinner... salad and quiche ;) Minus the chicken poo.. thats just how you know the eggs fresh!

What's New in the Farm Store and ​Behind the Scenes

A new batch of Granny's Everything Salve great for cuts, scrapes, bumps, sore muscles, burns and more! A family recipe handed down many generations, order your tin today!

Our Lymph Salve seems very popular this month. Great for use on the skin where ever lymph nodes are present such as the neck glands, arm pits and popular with those fighting breast cancer.

In the coming months we will be switching our loose leaf teas over to this lovely stand up bags. A lovely way to see all the tea leaves and herbs as well as resealable for easy use.

The melting pot... no not the fondue chocolate kind. This concoction is a new batch of Arnica Salve melting away great for bumps and bruises with lovely ingredients such as coconut oil, arnica and shea butter.

In-between days of rain and more rain we got occasional sun in which we took advantage of to stain wooden crates for our display at the Salem Saturday Market! We will be there in April on the 9th. If you are local come by and say hi!

Thanks for visiting our little family farm ...

Welcome to our Family Tea Farm!

Howdy from our farm to your home! It is said that the, "farm is the nursery of the family," and that "the family is the nursery of the nation." We hope you enjoy your visit to our blog as we share with you the happenings on our little "nursery". Thank you for following us on our journey and watching us GROW! Read more about our farm HERE.